National Conference on e-Governance

The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) along-with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (M/o Communication) in association with one of the State Governments (any state) has been organizing the National Conferenceon e-Governance every year since 1997.

This conference provides a platform for the senior officers of the Government including IT Secretaries of State Governments. IT Managers of the Central Government, and resource persons, experts, intellectuals from the industry and academic institutions, etc.

Platform is to discuss, exchange views and experiences relating to various e-Governance initiatives.

So far 20 national conference on e-Governance has been held.

20th eGovernance Conference was held on 9-10th January 2017 at Visakhapatnam

To recognize and promote excellence in implementation of e-Governance initiatives, DARPG presents National Awards every year during National Conference on eGovernance in the following categories :

• Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering;
• Outstanding performance in Citizen-Centric Service Delivery;
• Innovative use of technology in e-Governance;
• Incremental innovations in existing projects;
• Best District level initiative in citizen-centric service delivery thr ough ICT;
• Innovative use of GIS technology in eGovernance;
• Innovative use of mobile technology in eGovernance;
• Sectorial Award: ‘Skill Development and Employability’;
• Innovative Use of ICT by Central Government PSUs;
• Innovative Use of ICT by State Government PSUs/cooperatives/ federations/societies;
• Outstanding e-Governance initiative by academic and research institutions;
• Use of ICT for development by no government institutions.

Each category is given one gold and one silver award.

The gold award-winning project and its team is given a cash award upto a maximum of 2 lakh, subject to a ceiling of 75,000/- per individual and silver winning project and its team is given a cash award upto a maximum of one lakh, subject to a ceiling of 50,000/- per individual.